| A book that goes back and forth between time periods: Life After Life by Kate Atkinson | A book with a talking animal: Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky | A Lambda Literary Award winner | The first book in a series with at least 3 books: All Systems Red by Martha Wells | The oldest book (by original publication year) you own and haven’t read |
| A book you learned about from someone else’s bingo board (any year) | A book of poetry published in the year 2000 or later: Promesas de Oro by José Olivarez | A book set in a country house: Como agua para chocolate by Laura Esquivel | A book by an author you love but who you haven’t read in over five years : Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz | A book that’s a retelling of a myth/fable/fairytale/legend
: Baudolino by Umberto Eco |
| A book with a moon, a star, or a planet in its title: Hyperion by Dan Simmons | A book recommended to you by someone at least ten years older or ten years younger than you: The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck | Any book! (Free space): Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky | A book involving an old wooden ship: A Brightness Long Ago by Guy Gavriel Kay | A book on Vulture’s Best Books of 2023 list: Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton |
| A book by a woman of the South Asian diaspora | A book by an author with three or fewer published books: The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch | A play by someone other than Shakespeare | Read one of a friend’s favorite books from childhood: 'Salem's Lot by Stephen King | A book with a body of water on the cover |
| A history of something: The Wager by David Grann | A book set in a place you want to travel to: The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco | A book with a title that is a complete sentence: El coronel no tiene quien le escriba by Gabriel García Márquez | A book with an elderly main character: The Road by Cormac McCarthy | A book translated from Spanish (or in Spanish): El cuarto de atrás by Carmen Martín Gaite |